Cinefantastique Online

On the occasion of the upcoming DVD release of MOTHER OF TEARS in England, DVD Times offers an interview with the film’s director, Dario Argento, who explains the long time lapse between this film and its predecessors, SUSPRIA (1977) and INFERNO (1980):

“It’s 25 years since you made Inferno, what made you want to complete the Three Mother’s trilogy now?”
Dario Argento: “It’s a long story. For Suspiria and Inferno, the first two chapters of this trilogy I spent more than five years to prepare and create them, it was very difficult, and then, at the end, I had in front of me two superb chapters and when the time came to do the third chapter I said no, no more, for the moment, no. I postponed this film for some time, while I concentrated on the giallo and the thrillers, and then I produced the young guys(Lamberto Bava/Michele Soavi) who do the horror films and I do that for many years. And then some years ago, I was taken by curiosity to go to the library, where I studied the themes for Suspiria, the name is the Biblioteca Angelica. I looked at many books on occultism, magic, and also many, many paintings. At the time I was very interested in these stories, and …then I was in the United States to do an episode of the Masters of Horror and I met these two guys, Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, two young guys. I read the script they had and I said ‘Ok , we try. If it’s good, Ok, if it’s not good, I’ll try again with myself’. We did the script and it was good and we were happy and the film worked.”